Tag: California condors

How do lead bullets compare with non-lead bullets, and what does that mean for wildlife? Lead fragments in gut piles left by hunters can be deadly to scavengers. For the...

Chemicals long-banned in the U.S. like DDT and PCBs continue to pose a risk to California condors, researchers found, as the critically endangered raptors feed on contaminated marine mammals along...

A California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) that survived the devastating Dolan Fire as a chick has been released back into the wild after being cared for in captivity. Readers of The...

Female California condors have the rare ability to reproduce without a mate, joining other animals like sharks, rays and lizards. Scientists came across this discovery when working on captive breeding...

Fresh off the setback of losing a number of birds to the Dolan Fire, conservationists are set to release seven new birds into the wild. The Dolan Fire destroyed a...

Biologists found two condor chicks alive amidst the charred area created by the Dolan Fire in Central California. The wildfire swept through the Ventana Wildlife Society’s California condor (Gymnogyps californianus)...

While California condors often die from exposure to lead and other contaminants, those that survive may still experience sublethal stress impacts. Researchers found that raptors that fed on marine mammal...

A fresh batch of new chicks has brought the population of endangered condors in central California to more than 100 individuals for the first time in decades. California condors (Gymnogyps...

In some wildlife reintroductions, every animal returned to the wild dies. In others, predators released into a nature reserves move to adjacent cattle ranches and prey on livestock. Many translocations...

Lead ammunition is now banned for hunting wildlife in California. The new regulation is actually the final phase of a California law passed in 2013. The regulation came about at...